Thanks for the article.. That really umm.. Brightens things a lot, that it's a lot more than just "steemit".. Puts things into more perspective I should say. But it is very positive, though in the end.. All that increased attention hopefully will bring the demand that more exchanges start using the tokens again. Cause, if they exchanges don't deal with steem, many will stop posting since many are just here for the money.

I think this place would still be around and there would be hardcore users who don't care about any of that and just wanna get away from centralized social media like Facebook.. Though.. I think most of us here would agree that we want steem to do well, and to be more widely used as well. And there do seem to be some valid concerns that unfortunately too many probably ignore cause they just wanna make money and aren't looking at it more longterm.

In regards to pre mining.. I'm not sure how I feel about it. I kinda feel like they should wipe it clean before the release to the public and we can all start over, but I doubt that will happen! So.. When is it fair? You're right.. Those early people really made a killing.
I think some of these people could do a lot to help everyone if the voluntarily just gave some back to some new promising upcoming steemians or even if they put it into programs like dtube and stuff like that, that would be great. Hopefully more of them do, though just from a quick glance.. A few of the worst abusers don't seem to care. They don't want to give back.. They want MORE AND MORE AND MORE.. And it's never enough for some people.. No matter how rich they get, they always need more.